A quiet revival?

Has the church really exploded into growth all of a sudden, a mission movement is caught up in spiritual abuse, and is there any way of turning back from schism in the C of E?

Hello! Our first story today is all about some truly remarkable research by the Bible Society, who claim to have robust survey evidence that the UK church is bursting into life. Can we really believe the suggestion that in just six years church attendance nationwide has grown by an astonishing 56%?!

Then we touch on an investigation into allegations of spiritual abuse and controlling behaviour within a global evangelical mission movement, before finally picking up some threads of the gay blessings saga in the Church of England - are the two factions now so totally entrenched and estranged that some kind of toxic split is inevitable?

Then there’s my latest podcast (Is there such a thing as Christian antinatalism?), and a list of interesting church news stories from around the web, featuring this week a shocking act of cathedral-based peregrine vandalism, the most secularising cycle lane in England, and the least pious saint of modern times.